{"id":293407,"date":"2026-07-11T20:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T20:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/293407\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T20:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T20:50:08","slug":"parks-and-rec-supervisor-allegedly-dropped-pants-masturbated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/293407\/","title":{"rendered":"Parks and Rec supervisor allegedly dropped pants, masturbated"},"content":{"rendered":"

An NYC Parks<\/a> supervisor allegedly pulled down his pants and masturbated in front of an employee who repeatedly rejected his sickening sexual advances, according to a lawsuit.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The woman allegedly faced unrelenting sexual abuse<\/a> during her six-month stint working a parks cleaner in The Bronx under her perverted boss Hairold Suriel Martinez, she claimed in the June 19 filing in Bronx Supreme Court<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And the alleged victim, 36, said she was left hung out to dry when she cried out for help.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"AThe alleged victim claimed her supervisor followed her into a park bathroom and masturbated. J.C. Rice for NY Post<\/p>\n

She started working for the department in October 2025 through the Park Opportunity Program<\/a> (POP), a temporary program aimed at helping unemployed New Yorkers gain skills and climb out of poverty.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Suriel Martinez, 39, started coming onto her almost immediately, the woman claimed. <\/p>\n

\u201cPOP workers used to be called \u2018temporary park\u2019 workers \u2014 \u2018TP\u2019 workers,\u201d her attorney Edmond Pryor told The Post. \u201cYou know what that stood for to the guys at the parks department? \u2018Temporary p\u2013sy.’\u201d<\/p>\n

Suriel Martinez would allegedly wink and lick his lips at the woman, who he gave the unwanted nickname of \u201cEstrella,\u201d which means \u201cStar\u201d in Spanish, she said in the filing.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Suriel Martinez, who rakes in roughly $80,000 as a park supervisor, became more brazen by April 2025, Haile claimed.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He told her to go clean a park bathroom and allegedly followed her inside, according to the lawsuit.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He allegedly shut the door behind him and told her that he \u201cliked big breasts\u201d and that he \u201cwanted\u201d her.\u00a0<\/p>\n

When she turned around, he had his pants dropped, exposing his \u201cerect penis,\u201d and was masturbating,<\/a> according to the lawsuit.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He allegedly told the woman that if she performed oral sex<\/a> on him, she \u201cwouldn\u2019t have to work again.\u201d\u00a0She declined to do so and made it clear she had a boyfriend.<\/p>\n

She claimed that Suriel Martinez kept demanding sex. <\/p>\n

In July 2025, Suriel Martinez allegedly followed her into another supply closet, touched her breasts and masturbated. She recorded the encounter on her phone, which was in her pocket.<\/p>\n

Once Martinez revealed he was being filmed, he allegedly yelled, \u201cI don\u2019t want to f\u2013k you no more,\u201d and ordered her to delete the footage.<\/p>\n

She said she had complained about Suriel Martinez being a \u201cpervert\u201d to her other supervisors, her POP-appointed career coach and the department\u2019s Office of Equal Opportunity \u2013 but her concerns were brushed off and she was told to suck it up, she claimed in the filing.\u00a0<\/p>\n

She was allegedly told an investigator would be taking on her case. But when she asked one of her supervisors for an update on her second-to-last day on the job, she became agitated and said she didn\u2019t know anything about it, according to the complaint.<\/p>\n

The purported victim felt so uncomfortable after the encounter that she did not return for her last day of work. <\/p>\n

The alleged victim said she suffers from fear and anxiety, and is demanding damages for lost wages and emotional distress from the department and punitive damages from Suriel Martinez.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cShe is afraid to run into him any time she goes out,\u201d Pryor told The Post. \u201cShe doesn\u2019t want this to happen to anybody else.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Department of Parks and Recreation declined to comment amid active litigation. <\/p>\n

Suriel Martinez did not return a request for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An NYC Parks supervisor allegedly pulled down his pants and masturbated in front of an employee who repeatedly…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293408,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,111949,57,9,24,63,18883,5161,129,131,130,58],"class_list":["post-293407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-masturbation","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-parks-and-recreation","tag-sexual-assaults","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}